New Promising Data on S&N’s
BIRMINGHAM HIP™ System

Link
 http://www.ryortho.com/NEWSSHORTS/volume3/issue39/12-10-07-NS-New.htm

By Elizabeth Hofheinz, MEd, MPH December
10, 2007

No more wondering Down Under. The data
is in. Smith & Nephew, Inc.’s Orthopaedic Reconstruction
business is announcing the release of positive six-year
clinical data by the Australian Orthopaedic Association
National Joint Replacement Registry on the company’s
BIRMINGHAM HIP Resurfacing System (BHR™). According to
the company, the BHR, which has now been implanted in
nearly 80,000 patients in 26 countries, conserves more
of a patient’s bone than a traditional hip replacement,
enabling younger, more active patients to undergo hip
replacement surgery while preserving all future surgery
options, including a primary hip replacement. The design
of the BIRMINGHAM HIP Resurfacing System also offers
patients a reduced risk of dislocation. The report
revealed that the BHR device has the highest hip
resurfacing system survivability rate among all of its
established competitors for which data